Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
# Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération

The Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération is the Communauté d'agglomération, a type of local government structure, covering the metropolitan area of the city of Mulhouse in the department of Haut-Rhin and the region of Grand Est, northeastern France. Its area is 439.2 $km^2.$ Its population was 274,066 in 2018, of which 108,942 in Mulhouse proper. The current president of the agglomeration community is Fabian Jordan, elected January 2017.

## Composition

The Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération covers 39 communes:

* Baldersheim
* Bantzenheim
* Battenheim
* Berrwiller
* Bollwiller
* Bruebach
* Brunstatt-Didenheim
* Chalampé
* Dietwiller
* Eschentzwiller
* Feldkirch
* Flaxlanden
* Galfingue
* Habsheim
* Heimsbrunn
* Hombourg
* Illzach
* Kingersheim
* Lutterbach
* Morschwiller-le-Bas
* Mulhouse
* Niffer
* Ottmarsheim
* Petit-Landau
* Pfastatt
* Pulversheim
* Reiningue
* Richwiller
* Riedisheim
* Rixheim
* Ruelisheim
* Sausheim
* Staffelfelden
* Steinbrunn-le-Bas
* Ungersheim
* Wittelsheim
* Wittenheim
* Zillisheim
* Zimmersheim

## Responsibilities

On behalf of its 39 communes, the agglomeration exercises responsibility for:

* Spatial planning
* District heating
* Social cohesion
* Culture and tourism
* Sustainable Development
* Economic Development
* Higher education
* Employment
* Sports facilities
* Housing
* Senior citizen's services
* Children's services
* Public safety and citizenship
* Street cleaning, garbage collection and waste disposal
* Transportation and travel

Some of these responsibilities are subcontracted to the private sector. For example, the provision of the agglomeration's bus and tram network is subcontracted to Soléa.

